Metal vehicle-wheel.



T. E. MURRAY.

METAL VEHICLE WHEEL.

APPLICATION F1110 JUNEZS. 19 s.

1,223,088. l Patented Apr. 17,1917.

I e Romney the two sections c, d, which together form UNITED STATES PATENT oFFICE.

'moms n uUanAY, or NEW Yoan, N. Y.

. METAL 'VEHICLE-WHEEL.

Speeilicatlon of Letters Ilatent.v

Patented Apr. 17, 1917.

Application led InneZB, 1916. Serial No. 104 815.

To allwhomtmay concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS E. MURRAY, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and 'State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Metal Vehicle-Wheels, of which the following is a 'specicationr' spoke in two smiliar longitudinal homogeneusly united sections;r the said spoke sections being electrically butt welded to said rim sections. v

The object of the andcheapen the construction of sheet metal vehicle wheels of the type here shown.

In the accompanying drawings- Figure 1 shows m invention a lied to a spoke and rim in and form, an Fig. 2 the same applied to a rim having the usual turned over edges for engaging a tire.

Similar letters of referenceindicate'like parts. y L f jThe oke A is formed of two longitudinal hal sections a, l b, electrically welded at their longitudinal edges, said sections being made by striking up, stamping or pressing the metal.- At its outer end, each spoke section is electrically butt welded to one of shown at e, f, with the edges of the invention is to simplify the B, and which are themselves elec-v trically united a' their circumferential edges.

The rim may have the usual shape, shown in Fig. 2, to adapt it to hold a tire, or it may be flat, as shown in.Fig. 1. In either case the inner periphery of the rim is smooth.

' The inner en l. of each half spoke section a or b may be a wedge-shaped frustum, s o e sections lying ii 1 aplane parallel to the at front and rear faces of the wedge-shaped ends lof said spokes.

' I claim:

A vehicle wl eel of sheet metal, comprising tubular spo `zes, each spoke being'formed in two longitudinally divlded half sections, and the rim bei ngformed in two circumferential half sect ons, each rim section having a uniformly s1 uooth inner periphery wit recesses in the opposing ed of said rim sections, the said spoke sections being electrically butt welded to said rim sections and registeringy with said recesses, and the said rim sectic ns., and the sections of each spoke being eltri'cally welded together at theirmeeting edges.

In testimony whereof I have aixed signature in pr esence of two witnesses. y THOMAS E. MURRAY.

Witnesses:

Gmmame T. Poz'rnn, MAY T. McGmY. 

